We compare Bitcoin to fiat currencies (EUR, GBP, and JPY) using extreme dependence and risk spillover analysis with various financial markets covering fixed-income, stock, and commodity indices. Using daily data from October 2010 to December 2022, covering various stress periods including the...

This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on oil prices, CO2 emissions and stock market volatility over the period January 22, 2020 – March 30, 2020 using an unrestricted VAR. We demonstrate that although the increasing number of COVID-19 infections causeda decrease in the price of...

The current global COVID-19 pandemic is adversely affecting the oil market (West Texas Intermediate) and crypto-assets markets. This paper empirically investigates the extent to which interdependence in markets may be driven by COVID-19 effects. We fit copulas to pairs of before and after...

This paper proposes a new measure of epidemic uncertainty combining three dimensions related to the SARS-CoV-2 disease ‒ (i) the total COVID-19 confirmed cases, (ii) the total COVID-19 confirmed deaths and (iii) the total COVID-19 recovered cases ‒ to show how financial and macroeconomic...